How to Develop and Maintain your Mental Health in the Workplace.

Mental health - in the workplace as much as anywhere - is increasingly important for a whole range of people, and that is why we have prepared this half-day course. You can attend this APT-Accredited course as an individual, or we can bring the training to your own organisation and train a group of 6-15 people.

It covers mental health as it applies in the workplace and is designed to be suitable 'across the board'.

Executive Summary:

This course is designed to give a thorough overview of the key issues in mental health. As such it covers

the major diagnoses in mental illness - their symptoms and characteristics;

an overview of how to maintain good mental health, and how to help others do so;

An overview of the major treatment strategies* and maintaining mental health.

Biological interventions including medication.

Behavioural interventions, including behavioural activation.

Approaches focusing on the surroundings / environment.

Approaches focusing on interpersonal factors.

Approaches focusing on the person's thinking style, including Mindfulness.

The concept of temporariness - and hope for the future.

Winding down.

Q and A session: how the content meshes with your own workplace.

The 3-teams Quiz

Registration and Feedback.

What the course will do for you:

You will have an overview of all the major diagnoses of mental illness.

Your everyday interactions with people who are experiencing mental health problems are likely to be helpful ones.

You will have an overview of the major approaches to maintaining mental health.

You will know how to maintain your own mental health, and be able to plan the action necessary to do so in your own circumstances.

The subjects of mental health and mental illness will be 'de-mystified' and shown to be the interesting topics of universal human relevance that they are.

You will feel confident that you have a good working knowledge of mental health and mental illness.

What you receive as a result of attending this training:

All delegates are registered at APT as having attended the course, and receive a certificate to acknowledge their attendance, registration, and APT-Accreditation at the appropriate level. As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This accreditation is given weight by the fact of over 100,000 professionals having attended APT training.

How can I bring this training in?

Option 1: Bring the course to your organisation:

We bring the half-day course to your organisation for a fixed, all-inclusive fee of £1,250 plus VAT and up to 15 people can attend. Additional places can be purchased at £50 plus VAT per person.

Share this course with your colleagues.

As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. APT verifies the accreditation by publishing the delegates' average ratings of relevance and presentation-quality for all its accredited courses. The accreditation is given value by over 100,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

Feedback Ratings.

We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last two runnings of this course.*

Average Presentation rating: 97%

Average Relevance rating: 97%

*Please note, this is a new course and these statistics are taken from the Mental Health & Mental Health: an Overview course.

Written Feedback.

APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments this course has received.*

"A fascinating and very useful course. Very well delivered, extremely engaging. Has given me a real insight and was taught in such a way that I feel better equipped for the future."

"Really enjoyed the course, feel I have gained relevant knowledge regarding mental health illnesses and mental health as a whole."